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What is the CVE-2018-17144 vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core client? How did such a critical bug happen? What should we do about it?

Please see the following about upgrading your node to the latest release; alternatively you can find various backported releases with the vulnerability fixed: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2018-October/000068.html

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